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23 de jun. de 2017 · Allen's father Dick - a war veteran - suffered from PTSD and drank heavily and although mum Marion did her best to protect Peter and his sister, home was a hostile place. Educated at Armidale High School, Peter left school after his father committed suicide in November 1958, and moved to Lismore with his mother and sister.
By Loretta Barnard on August 21st, 2019. On a March evening in 1998, six years after the death of Australian entertainer Peter Allen, The Boy from Oz opened at her Majesty’s Theatre in Sydney. Starring Todd McKenney as Peter and Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett as Judy Garland, it became one of the most loved musicals of the last two decades ...
27 de nov. de 2022 · by George Spencer · Published November 27, 2022 · Updated November 27, 2022. “Tenterfield Saddler” serves as a brief biography of the last three generations of Peter Allen’s lineage, i.e. the first verse being about grandfather, the second his father and the last himself. It is his granddad, one George Woolnough (1884-1963), whom this ...
11 de sept. de 2015 · Peter Allen—the singer, songwriter, dancer and flamboyant entertainer who died in 1992—once sang about no longer being 'the boy next door'. But in 1950s northern NSW, he was literally a ...
17 de ene. de 2022 · Liza Minnelli with her first husband, Peter Allen (1944 - 1992), at their wedding, 3rd March 1967 [Right]. | Photo: Getty Images. In Darryl W. Bullock's book, "David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music," Bullock wrote that Minnelli found her new husband in bed with her mother, Judy Garland's fourth husband, Mark Herron, on their wedding ...
His father Richard suffered something like shell-shock in World War II, and upon his return home became a violent alcoholic; he shot himself to death while Peter was very young. Grandfather George stood in for Peter’s parent, but never really got over the incident. (Peter Allen tells the story in his song “Tenterfield Saddler.”)
Peter Allen (1944–1992), singer/songwriter and entertainer, was born Peter Allen Woolnough in Tenterfield, NSW. At age fifteen he joined with singer Chris Bell to form the Allen Brothers, and by 1964 was part of a successful singing trio chosen to support Judy Garland on her world tour. He married Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli in 1967; they separated two years later. In the 1970s he ...
